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Just gonna leave this little gem here, enjoy.
Haha jesus christ, the incompetence is unreal!
I literally fell out my chair laughing at the network tab scrolling like that 🤣
You know things are going well when you have to restrict content consumption on your content platform.
By post he means tweet, right? Google says average tweet length is only around 30 characters and average word length around 5 characters. So let’s say it’s 8 words with abbreviation which would take 2 seconds to read. If it’s 4 seconds per tweet with scrolling then you can now only spend under an hour on Twitter without paying. Good on him for fighting against social media addiction I guess.
I got rate limited in 25 minutes by refreshing my Following feed and reading about people getting rate limited. I don’t think it counts 600 unique tweets since I definitely reloaded the same tweets multiple times.
Dude is using 100% of his brain to find the best way to cut ad revenue.
It’s basically everything. Tweets, quoted tweets, replies, and even ads all count against the limit. I’ve seen people saying they hit the limit in under 10 minutes of scrolling. One person said they only managed to post two tweets before being limited.
And from what I understand spam bots are mostly unaffected since they’re already rate limited for reads (but not posts).
wow, this is actually amazing.
You’d think a rapidly developing service like Lemmy might face restrictions like that due to resources but Twitter? Mismanagement beyond belief.
How the fuck is Reddit closing their API behind a ridiculous paywall only the SECOND stupidest social media move of the day
Boy I sure picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue
Well I picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines!
The day is not over yet
Limit rating your core audience in their primary task is completely batshit crazy. Thank fuck for mastodon.
spez right now:
Elon will be happy to know that my Twitter consumption has fallen to zero a day.
I for one am cheering its demise.
You know the fediverse isn’t perfect but it seems more sustainable than these big social media companies that are not profitable. Reddit and Twitter make no real money but want to host everything on their website and I’m not entirely sure why. Image boards like 4chan purge all their data and the fediverse is spread out to a bunch of different servers. What’s the point of keeping everything forever on one server? Do they really think that all that junk data is valuable?
Also why did reddit go from just hosting text to hosting images and videos? It used to be a link aggregation site now it’s a never leave our borders site I don’t understand how that’s going to be profitable with how much hosting that data is going to cost.
Years ago I used to hit like 15 websites a day just for video game news and discussion then it became all reddit.
Miss the good ole days of imgur, YouTube, and porn on gfycat
As Cory Doctorow termed it, it’s the enshittification of the Internet - all for the sake of “shareholder value” It’s a proper “can’t see the wood for the trees” business
Miss the good ole days of porn on gfycat
I wonder what’s actually going on; I doubt it’s about “scraping” and “manipulation”
This is second-hand, so take it with a grain of salt, but I’ve seen mention of a bug that sometimes causes the same graphql query to be executed in an infinite loop (presumably they’re async requests, so the browser wouldn’t lock and the user wouldn’t even notice).
So they may essentially be getting DDOS’d by their own users due to a bug on their end.
Edit: better info: https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057
Ha, that’s hilarious. Absolutely not a surprise, though
Its all about getting people to pay for it.
If it is, he’s even dumber than I thought. You stop scrapping by setting a rate limit to something comfortable for humans but painfully slow for scrappers. Something like 60 tweets per minute would all but ensure that humans aren’t affected and that scrappers won’t get anywhere.
Or it could be. It’s no coincidence that scraping went way up when he started charging for the API.
Everyone with a brain knows that data will be retrieved somehow, it’s do you want a lower cost API option or do you want them to scrape the whole webpage?
For my money I would bet the issue stems from abandoning Google server hosting, either from arrogance or being unable to afford it.
That’s my bet too. They weren’t hosting the site itself on GCP but they were using them for trust and safety services, and I bet that one of those services was anti scraping prevention with things like ip blocking and captchas, which would explain why scraping suddenly became a problem for them the day their contract ended. It can’t be a coincidence.
Oh yeah I completely forgot about that particular idiocy, Elmo gets up to so much stupid shit that it’s hard to keep track.
But I’d also be willing to bet money on this being somehow at least partially tied to ditching GC, likely due to not being able to pay (at that’s what is implied by them refusing to pay the bill.) I guess Elmo thought “how hard can running some servers be? I’m a rokit skientist” and decided to just skip paying the bill as a power move instead of trying to make a deal with Google, and now the remaining developers, ops people etc. – those poor bastards – are paying the price.
Please please please let this be the breaking point at which big online personalities switch to mastodon, or at least start using those crossposting tools. That’s the only thing I miss from twitter and something RSS cant replace
Fucking lol.
Keep punching yourself in the dick, elmo.
You really can’t make this stuff up, it’s beyond my head how someone can make those choices. But I mean advertisers already ditched Twitter long ago, so why not squeeze the last money out of it that you can get.
Simply put this is the most amazing thing the twit did to Twitter since forcing himself as King Twit. Even better than when he tried to back out of it but couldn’t because he’d already signed for it.
